Richard R. Rustandi

Biography

 Richard is a research fellow in Vaccine Analytical Development at Merck Co. He has been in the company for 12 years and have 6 years experiences in working with various therapeutic protein programs. Dr. Rustandi was heavily involved in assay developments, CRO transfer, and validation including CMC. He haa been working my other 6 years in vaccine analytical area with similar roles, assay development, validation, and transfer to manufacture plus characterization for BLA. In addition, Richard has managed biochemistry analytical group for both TP and Vaccine to support fermentation, purification, and formulation areas. This has led him to get involved in establishing several new CE-based technologies to increase efficiency. He holds BS degree from University of Hawaii at Manoa, MS and a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the University of Chicago specialized in magnetic resonance (EPR, NMR) and had his postdoctoral experiences at University of Zurich and Harvard Medical School. Richard's current professional associations include committee member in CE Pharm, the American Chemical Society and EPR society.

Research Interest

 therapeutic protein programme electrical magnetic resonance.